C Job Trends in the East Midlands

C
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 98 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +20
Permanent jobs citing C 11 31 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.43% 1.44% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 5.13% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 33
10th Percentile £35,250 £39,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,313 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +12.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £51,813 £65,938 £53,750
90th Percentile £56,000 £72,500 £62,250
England median annual salary £56,215 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.31% - -4.00%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 445 604 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.31% 28.01% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 358 370 649
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £64,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,625 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

C job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

C
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing C

C
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C in the East Midlands

C
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire -26 4 £45,750 -20.43% 14
Northamptonshire -5 3 - - 9
Leicestershire - 3 £36,500 - 8
Nottinghamshire +11 1 £54,000 +20.00% 13
C
England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
1 1 (9.09%) LTE
1 1 (9.09%) Modbus
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
1 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) WinForms
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (18.18%) CCTV
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) SCADA
3 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Project Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Case Management
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Network Design
4 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) Ladder Logic
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) VB
3 2 (18.18%) VBA
4 1 (9.09%) Delphi
4 1 (9.09%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) HND
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Allen-Bradley
1 2 (18.18%) Siemens
1 2 (18.18%) Toshiba
2 1 (9.09%) Atmel
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle